The ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography, given every fourth year to the most outstanding scholarly book about books and worth 10.000 $, is one of the most prestigious prizes in the field of bibliography.Now the Jury, consisting of Felix de Marez Oyens President of the B.H. Breslauer Foundation, David Adams Manchester University, Jean-Marc Chatelain Bibliothque […] Read More

In a viral YouTube video from October 2011 a one-year-old girl sweeps her fingers across an iPad’s touchscreen, shuffling groups of icons. In the following scenes she appears to pinch, swipe and prod the pages of paper magazines as though they too were screens. When nothing happens, she pushes against her leg, confirming that her […] Read More

"I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age," said Oscar Wilde in that curious literary document, De Profundis. "Few men hold such a position in their own lifetime, and have it so recognized." He was wrong so far as his own lifetime was concerned, for the […] Read More

The Bram Stoker Festival opens in Dublin, Ireland, Oct. 26, to celebrate the author of the worlds most famous vampire, Dracula. This three-day event will turn back the pages of time to the citys native-born son, Bram Stoker, highlighting his life and work through spine-tingling vampire hunts, historic places and performing arts. via Dracula Sinks […] Read More

Kim Newman is an expert in all things that go bump in the night. He is the writer of the Anno Dracula series and a regular film reviewer for the Guardian. He has been given the enviable job of curating the film section of the Bram Stoker Festival, that takes place in Dublin from the […] Read More

Those familiar with director Ken Russells work tend to know him for either his highbrow historical dramas (Women in Love) and composer biopics (Mahler, The Music Lovers), or his sci-fi/horror outing Altered States, specifically for the latters hallucination sequences. Combining both genres, his 1986 film Gothic is a recounting of the origin stories of both […] Read More

It is 1929 when lumber baron George Pemberton steps off the train bringing his bride Serena home to the North Carolina Mountains. There is a surprise waiting for him. Before he left to wed Serena, he had fathered a child with one of the local girls, whose father is now looking for revenge. via Appalachian […] Read More

tuart Gordon is, inarguably, one of the undisputed masters of the horror genre. With such landmark works as the cult classic Re-Animator under his belt, Gordon’s filmic oeuvre has always sought to blend a touch of scholarly class with the genre’s gory grand guignol. Never one to shy away from his literary influences, Gordon has […] Read More

The lovely bit of Odilon Redon, on the cover – "the eye, like a strange balloon, bears towards infinity" – does honour to Poe’s symbolist credentials; how nice to see him among his friends. But then the French always got on with Poe better – relished the style Baudelaire called "at once pure and strange," […] Read More

Iceland is experiencing a book boom. This island nation of just over 300,000 people has more writers, more books published and more books read, per head, than anywhere else in the world. via BBC News – Iceland: Where one in 10 people will publish a book. Read More

Modern gothic is one of the most fashionable ways to dress this season. Undoubtedly one of the biggest looks for Fall/Winter 13 is modern gothic, which is about as far away from the clichs of velvet capes, flatform boots and PVC cat suits as it’s possible to be. This time around, gothic has grown up. […] Read More

Its a fascinating oddity of literary history that the great Victorian novelist of romantic love, Charlotte Bront, despised that other great British chronicler of love, Jane Austen, and could not quite comprehend why Austen was valued so highly by critics in Bronts time. This seems counterintuitive: after all, both appear regularly at the top of […] Read More

To celebrate the launch of Rare Book Week, a panel of passionate bibliophiles including a collector, a designer and a twenty-first-century book-maker will explore changing perspectives on what makes a book beautiful and what makes us treasure it long after its shelf life. via Beautiful Books – The Wheeler Centre: Books, Writing, […] Read More

Cassandra King’s latest effort is a modern day southern gothic novel. Now writing a modern day gothic story is a little daunting especially when you want to fill it with overtones of Daphne du Maurier and perhaps even a little Victoria Holt. But MOONRISE touches all the right notes to make it a suspenseful story […] Read More

In her 1831 introduction to Frankenstein (first published anonymously in 1818), Mary Shelley refers to the novel as her hideous progeny, but bids it to go forth and prosper. It has not only prospered but multiplied and mutated, becoming the stuff of incalculable nightmares, dramatic adaptations and Halloween costumes. The rather thrilling story of its […] Read More

An arts centre in Hereford has kicked off a season of Gothic cinema by showing the original versions of The Mummy and Dracula. via Hereford arts centre introduces its new Gothic season | Minuteman Press Print Services. Read More

Sometimes, as Edgar Allan Poe mused in The Purloined Letter, a secret hides in plain sight. After Poes first poetry collection, Tamerlane and Other Poems, dbuted in 1827anonymously, and quite sensibly so, as the eighteen-year-old author was on the run from creditorstwo of his poems (The Happiest Day and Dreams) reappeared that autumn in the […] Read More

EDGAR ALLAN POE died in Baltimore on Sunday last. His was one of the very few original minds that this country has produced. In the history of literature, he will hold a certain position and a high place. By the public of the day he is regarded rather with curiosity than with admiration. Many will […] Read More

John Rambo, Rocky Balboa, Lt. Raymond Tango — Sylvester Stallone has been an icon of cinema for almost 40 years, keeping his ’80s troupe current with the kids through The Expendables franchise. Yet behind all his bravado, through the smoke of the explosions and amongst his gargantuan muscles, there lies a darker dramatic side. Since […] Read More

Edgar Allan Poe, among the unluckiest and most misunderstood of writers, is the subject of a tasteful, thoughtful exhibition that opens on Friday at the Morgan Library & Museum about 100 years too late to do his reputation much good. Among Poes misfortunes is that many of his American contemporaries found his work morbid […] Read More

QWIKLIT GothicFiction Main Purpose:To channel many of the fears, vices and undercurrents of the prevailing Enlightenment philosophy of the day by reviving an interest in horror and medieval romance. via QWIKLIT Gothic Fiction One Hundred Pages. Read More

NEW YORKThe Morgan Museum calls its new Edgar Allan Poe exhibit Terror of the Soul, quoting the author, but the exhibit itself shows Poe as more than only master of the macabre. via Edgar Allan Poe, Partially Out of the Shadows: photo 2. Read More

BURIED between magazines celebrating the Queen’s coronation in 1953 and a copy of the TV Times, this rare find could help raise thousands of pounds for Dorking Museum. via Museum unearths rare Charles Dickens newspaper | This is Surrey. Read More

So you think SF is all about monsters and spaceships? Think again. Jennifer Ridyard, co-author of a thrilling new series, says its a something-for-everyone universe, which asks the most exciting question of all, What if… via Why science fiction isnt just for geeky boys | Childrens books | theguardian.com. Read More

What is the allure of gothic fiction? Many readers are familiar with this form of melodrama that originated in the 18th century from the dark imaginations of such writers as Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe. Replete with ruined castles, underground labyrinths, ghosts, murders, family secrets, kidnap, incest, rattling chains, mad monks and [insert your favorite […] Read More

It is 1841 and the gruesome double murder of an old woman and her daughter in their apartment in the heart of Paris has the police baffled. Enter one C. Auguste Dupin, Edgar Allan Poes fictional detective. Before Miss Marple, Hercule Poiret and Sherlock Holmes, there was Le Chevalier and this anthology seeks to restore […] Read More

VANCOUVER – Charles Dickens was one of England’s most-respected writers during the 19th century, but he wasn’t much of a father, and that may have had an impact even a small one on Canadian history, says the author of a new historical novel that focuses on the younger Dickens’s life as a Mountie. […] Read More